The channel has picked up the UK rights to the series, which focuses on the employees of the Pan Am airline in the 1960s.

Pan Am, which will premiere in the US in September, features a cast including Christina Ricci, Mike Vogel and Kelli Garner.

The BBC's head of programme acquisition Sue Deeks, who picked up the series from Sony Pictures Television, claimed that the show is a "breath of fresh air".

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Deeks also described the programme as a "colourful and stylish drama set in a captivating era that changed the world".

BBC Two's controller Janice Hadlow added: "With a love story at its heart and a great unfolding plot that hints at the danger and mystery to come, viewers will be in for an exciting but turbulent ride."